"Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls" by Mary Pipher delves into the challenges faced by teenage girls in the '90s, exploring issues such as sexism, lookism, and societal pressures. Through personal stories and case studies, the author highlights the struggles of adolescent girls dealing with problems related to family relationships, peer pressure, drugs, violence, and self-image. Pipher offers practical advice to parents and adults on understanding and supporting teenage girls through adolescence, drawing from her experiences as a psychologist working with young girls.
"Reviving Ophelia" serves as a wake-up call to parents, educators, and society at large, urging for a cultural shift to create a safer and more supportive environment for adolescent girls. provides insights into the challenges faced by young girls in navigating puberty, peer expectations, and societal norms, emphasizing the importance of empowering girls to overcome obstacles and find their sense of self-worth in a world that often demeans and devalues them.
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Content warnings include discussions of psychological distress, eating disorders, substance abuse, bullying, sexual harassment, and societal pressures.
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The groundbreaking work that poses one of the most provocative questions of a generation: what is happening to the selves of adolescent girls?
As a therapist, Mary Pipher was becoming frustrated with the growing problems among adolescent girls. Why were so many of them turning to therapy in the first place? Why had these lovely and promising human beings fallen prey to depression, eating disorders, suicide attempts, and crushingly low self-esteem? The answer hit a nerve with Pipher, with parents, and with the girls themselves. Crashing and burning in a "developmental Bermuda Triangle," they were coming of age in a media-saturated culture preoccupied with unrealistic ideals of beauty and images of dehumanized sex, a culture rife with addictions and sexually transmitted diseases. They were losing their resiliency and optimism in a "girl-poisoning" culture that propagated values at odds with those necessary to survive.
Told in the brave, fearless, and honest voices of the girls themselves who are emerging from the chaos of adolescence, Reviving Ophelia is a call to arms, offering important tactics, empathy, and strength, and urging a change where young hearts can flourish again, and rediscover and reengage their sense of self.
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Interesting look at the realities and disturbing cultural messages bombarding today's young women
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About the Author:
Mary Pipher, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and author of Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age, Hunger Pains: The American Woman's Tragic Quest for Thinness, The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families, Another Country: Navigating the…
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